Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist
Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also... Wikipedia
Born: October 25, 1928, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died: January 3, 2016 (age 87 years), Herlev, Denmark
Awards: Turing Award
Parents: Albert Naur
Spouse: Christiane Floyd
Books
Concise Survey of Computer Methods
1974
Computing: A Human Activity
1992
Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules: Including True Statements in Knowing and Action * Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity * Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science
1995
Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains
2011
An Anatomy of Human Mental Life: Psychology in Unideological Reconstruction Incorporating the Synapse-state Theory of Mental Life
2004
Antiphilosophical Dictionary: Thinking, Speech, Science/scholarship : with a Summary
2001